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July 29, 2010 A visit from Klaus Wowereit The Mayor of Berlin visited the industrial courtyard in Prenzlauer Berg as part of his summer tour of the German capital’s localities. Jörg Schmidtsiefen greeted him with a brief tour of the trial installations for the current Archimedes project “Re: generation”. [more]
June 18, 2010 Science Tunnel tours Mexico On 16 June 2010 the EXPO Hecho en Alemania (Made in Germany) opened at the World Trade Centre in Mexico City. A number of highlights have been organised to coincide with the major industrial technology exhibition: the Science Tunnel is stopping by for nine days and German industry’s Latin America conference is holding its meeting there. [more]
June 1, 2010 Joint venture with Charité, Berlin: "virtual child" As part of a comprehensive EU-funded initiative (ERDF), Archimedes, Berlin is developing an electronic treatment table – complete with patient. The SimMed project is one of the Berlin schemes Senator for Economics Harald Wolf unveiled on Wednesday 26 May at a press conference hosted by Archimedes. [more]
May 25, 2010 AWARD "GOLDENER FUNKE 2010" SPECIAL AWARD FOR SCIENCE EXPRESS [more]
May 6, 2010 Computer.Sport in the Netherlands The Discovery Center Continium in Kerkrade was opening one of Archimedes’s most exciting exhibitions, Sport Unlimited, on April 30. First designed for the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum as Computer.Sport, the fascinating exhibition shows how tightly interwoven sport and technology have become. [more]
May 6, 2010 Record attendance in Vienna After six months on the road, the Computer.Medicine exhibition body.check – Hightech for healthy living drew to a highly successful close in Vienna. The fascinating show gave 180,000 visitors the opportunity to experience how computer medicine is changing our everyday lives at first hand. [more]
April 16, 2010 5-Million-People-Show Science Express India is becoming its own success story: Five million visitor mark in New Delhi tells enough. This fact causes vivid public interest in India and special celebrations. Thus more millions of people will visit their smart train touring the vast country. Science communication with a broad effect. [more]
March 11, 2010 Opening in Buenos Aires The opening of Science Tunnel in Buenos Aires on 8 March 2010 turned out to be a meeting of international politicians: Argentina’s president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, used the event as an opportunity to meet the German foreign minister, Guido Westerwelle, as they both had a guided tour by project manager Andreas Trepte from the Max Planck Society. [more]
January 14, 2010 German Chancellor attends exhibition opening in Berlin On Monday, 11 January, 2010, Germany’s International Year of Biodiversity got underway with a ceremony in Berlin: Angela Merkel and the Federal Minister for the Environment Norbert Röttgen presented the political agenda on the conservation of biodiversity at the Natural History Museum inBerlin. [more]
October 8, 2009 200,000 visitors in six months The exhibition train opened in April and is now into the sixth month of its journey. We will have reached the 200,000 visitor mark in Potsdam-Rehbrücke (9 to 11 October). We are delighted by the interest we have received! [more]
October 8, 2009 Science Express India, Phase III – 50 more cities The Science Express has already completed two journeys since October 2007, stopping in a total of 100 cities and clocking up 3.5 million visitors. It is now setting off on a third trip, and will visit 50 more cities in India in the next seven months. [more]
October 8, 2009 Computer.Medizin – Opening in Vienna on 16 October The Computer.Medicine exhibition will open in the Technical Museum in Vienna on 16 October, entitled ‘body.check – high-tech for our health’. The exhibition will run until 14 April 2010 and will inform visitors about the use of state-of-the-art computer technology in medicine. [more]
October 8, 2009 Science Tunnel on the Pacific – 1st appearance in South America The Science Tunnel can be seen in the Ex Frigorífico Barón in Puerto Valparaiso, Chile, from 9 October to 10 December 2009. After Europe, Asia, Africa and North America, this marks the arrival of the interactive science exhibition on the fifth continent. [more]
July 14, 2009 100,000 visitors to the train The ‘Science Express’ has been underway since April, and in Nuremberg we have just recorded the 100,000th visitor. The science train with an exhibition designed by ArchiMeDes will be touring around Germany until November 2009. [more]
July 14, 2009 Exhibition design for the Copernicus Science Centre in Warsaw ArchiMeDes has won a European tender for the ‘Youth Gallery’ in the Copernicus Science Centre. The exhibition is geared specifically towards 17 to 25-year olds, a rather unusual target group for science centres. [more]
March 24, 2009 Science Express – Science on rails On 24 April 2009 the over 300-metre “Science Express” exhibition train will be starting on its tour. The train, consisting of twelve theme railcars, will be stopping in 60 cities and inviting visitors to experience current research trends and perspectives until 2020 in a wide range of exciting interactive exhibits. [more]
March 24, 2009 Computer.Sport at the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum Observe yourself while sprinting. Until 5 July 2009 visitors to the HNF in Paderborn will receive a fascinating insight into the meaning of current computer-based technology for today’s sport. ArchiMeDes realized the mobile exhibition with an unusual design. [more]
March 24, 2009 Transatlantic debut of the Science Tunnel The multimedia exhibition of the Max-Planck Society turns current research themes into an experience. On its world tour it is giving a guest appearance at the South Florida Science Museum in Palm Beach until 29 March 2009. [more]
